Japs Retreat Before World Aid to China
KATZ, RUDOLF
Nippon "Loses Face" Japs Retreat Before World Aid to China DEMOCRACIES, COMMUNISTS AND NAZIS POUR MEN AND MUNITIONS INTO CHINA IN FEVERISH SCRAMBLE FOR MARKETSCHINESE STRATEGY DEVISED BY...
...So the present Sino-Japanse war, like all Chinese affairs, means something more than a European war, such as the Spanish conflict...
...A cat and dog fight is rapidly developing among the American, German and British mining interests over the valuable tin and copper deposits...
...But special Chinese repair, columns smooth every damage in a few hours whenever a direct hit is scored...
...The plane are to step in during a war, supply the fighting nations with arms, and take over the valuable spheres of influence when the fighting, is over...
...and Writers By ELIAS L. TARTAK Dos Passos on Europe and Am I • ¦'HERE are fashions in books as there are fashions in data* *• and hats...
...a . Both parties want the successful Labor Party in some coalition .with themselves to keep from complete oblivion in England...
...It inquires patience and understanding...
...ONE of the many peculiarities of the conflict is the fact that there is no "official" war...
...In the civil air service German ^viators are predominant, especially in the "Eurasia" line...
...Up to the time of writing no action has been taken, al'w though the proposal is being examined with a great deal of care...
...adays, who writes heroic epics or tragedies in rhymed verse...
...The American Federatt»* Labor looks pretty stolid and stationary...
...Cooperation in China —while they are killing one another in Spain...
...Her labor Federation wants support for a proposed Pan-American Trade Union Con. gress...
...Books...
...The leaders are idealized...
...In other words, Hitler's idea is to sell them high-priced munitions, created out of raw materials supplied by the South American nations themselves...
...Nobody there seems to know how to got out of the adventure without "losing face...
...Oar poet friend may not be an authority on iambic pentameter but we're willing to wager he knows his politics...
...No end is yet to be seen...
...The life of a human being does not count for much in a country where hundreds of thousands are still killed every year by floods, droughts, epidemics or similar mass cataclysms, which doubtless result in the loss of more human lives than are being taken by the present invasion...
...It is Hongkong which today carries not only the normal foreign commerce of the large unconquered China, but also the large war supplies trade...
...Airplanes, trucks, guns, munitions and all types of war materials are arriving daily in the port of Hongkong...
...Sometimes, -while standing before a row of peSkoMf of the 18th or the 16th century, we think: How could they this T Or else, we admire the picturesqueness or the common Me* of the clothes of old, as compared with our clumsy city efethejji] today...
...And the ***** suffers as she deserves for her lack of a proportionate view, ff what has happened since hist fall already dates her -narratfffc ¦* as a tale, as a reporter's story of the cruder physical asp**** labor s struggle, this book is first-class...
...The Nazis are working in their own effective way...
...Mexico also figured in another debate...
...The national legislature has taken no action yet...
...Up to now Japan has spent about one-third of her gold and has suffered losses of about 350,00 of her best men...
...And everybody must tell of his «r he first, and what is stranger still, of his latest love affair...
...Somehow, the Arabs, for all their lack of familiarity *• the toothbrush and their love for "safety money" (a form of poto blackmail), get their western visitors of imagination...
...The rest of the Lunghai railway has still to be taken...
...But the reader seems to be eager to receive, ml the authors to give, under the pressure of fast moving events ad under conditions of modern traveling, competent impression ef lands and men, stressing more the freshness and vividness of ia...
...For years, for decades perhaps, all of Japan's strength will be claimed by the China adventure...
...By RUDOLF KATZ Former member of the Chinese National Economic Council in Nanking...
...He frequently suspends judgment, but not the operatum of his judgment...
...Colleges and frequently . writes for trade union and Labor Party newspapers...
...The author of "Manhattan Transfer" and "The Big Money" to seen a bit of the world, and has seen it with the eye of a nofdkt It is the human beings, not their programs and pretenses, mat a. terest him, men, as they are formed by their past, by their maroundings, by the landscape, by their way of living...
...She pillowed one man's bloody be* in her lap...
...All Japanese protests against that German military activity bring no results...
...It it well known that Hitler is very much opposed to the continuation of the war...
...The Communists' attempt to crush labor strength in Alyesworth, in an effort to create sentiment for their "Popular Front" drive, has aroused widespread ' resentment...
...Loath to give up his chance to cosh ;'n on Chinos invaluable oil...
...Such protests have been filed with Hitler since 1933 without cessation...
...However, both factions agree that Swiss policy must be based on activity within the framework of the League of Nations...
...And the stirring of all these Arabs, Persians, KftS* of the "small people," is brought to the reader with a feebnf hope and expectant curiosity...
...After working themselves into a lather in an unsuccessful attempt to secure a "united front" with the Laborites in the campaign, the Liberals put up their own candidates, and with the support of the Communists turned and attacked the Labor Party and its candidate...
...In the accompanying article Dr...
...Japan's slow but steady weakening in the** costly actions in China means at the same time a strengthening of the power of the Soviet*, *ef England, and of the United States...
...Although Groves didn't expect to win, the party pushed a strenuous campaign in an effort to build up support in the Tory stronghold with a view to taking it during a general election...
...ARGENTINE SOCIALISTS FIGHT NAZI PROPAGANDA BUENOS AIRES.—Aroused by the attempted putsch of the N'azisubsidized Integralistas in neighboring Brazil, the strong Argentine Socialist movement is moving rapidly to forestall any growth of Nazi sentiment in the republic...
...SWISS SOCIALISTS HIT COLLECTIVE SECURITYDASLE.—A debate over collective security and strict neutrality ** held the center of interest when Swiss Social Democrats met in regular annual national convention here last week-end...
...There is a direct river, train, and highway connection between Hongkong and Canton...
...He is keen and is sympathetic toward his Tmb, Spaniards, Persians and Russians...
...Steel Mills in Chicago comes to life as if you were seeing * »* movie: "Piled on top of each other in this patrol wagon we»*% teen dying and seriously wounded...
...The few railways might possibly be occupied at an enormous cost—prohibitive to Japan—of men and material...
...They come not only from American, English, French or Czechoslovakian factories, but also from Germany and Italy...
...And it seems that such help is being sent...
...For Hitler is by no means all-powerful...
...B^R'i?EW U1LLl0NS> "Wary He^ferL^MmySm AC CORDING to press 41 spa*eft:as received just before The New Leader went fo press, a few days offer Or...
...Today the bulk of China's "Great Men," ministers, bankers, generals, businessmen and high officials, who used to live in the foreign settlements of Shanghai, operate in the English Crown colony...
...To the Chinese, "face saving" means more than a mere pretension...
...He is the son of a famous German World War army chief...
...Katx, who tor two years was League of Nations delegate to China, analyses the foreign support China Is receiving...
...She has begun an adventure the result of which cannot yet be perceived...
...It is a complete deadlock, political as well as military...
...Bat practically everybody, and almost before the writer is out ef a*, lege, writes memoirs, autobiographies, and tells "everything" t*e> before it should be told...
...K#* gangsters of some Girdler are ready to shoot—Mary may Si * Paris or Hongkong, but she gets there in time to dodge the St**, and have blood spattered on her coat...
...The whole thing is pictured «* * mighty uprising of labor's millions...
...The past ten months of warfare, therefore, have shown but a small beginning of the difficulties awaiting the Japanese later on...
...Although this is being written before any final decisions were made it is already obvious that the majority favor that the Party urge Switzerland to return to a policy of strict neutrality...
...coal, Iron and other mineral deposit* vital to the waging of international war, Hitler h doublecrossing the Japanese /est as he deeblecrossed the Italians by Ms Vienna coup...
...The order came offer some fee months ef Intensive complaint on the part of fee Tokyo ambassador le Berlin...
...Bm ¦ searched in his pockets to try to find his cigarettes, but they *** soaked in blood...
...who charged that Nazis in the Argentine were carrying out tenacious propaganda directed by the German Propaganda Ministry,' the Bueno Aires province authorities last Week ordered a thorough investigation of German-operated - schools and propaganda...
...It is not quite impossible that the end will be disastrous for her present regime...
...The political unity of China has not been destroyed...
...The former "pro-Japanese" faction of the Kuomintang party led by Wang Ching Wei has nearly disappeared...
...OUCH a book is John Dos Passos's latest...
...t Jhe,re1ncver was snch a show...
...The adventure promises to cost Japan billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of additional soldiers, without any victory in sight...
...His brother, a Storm Troop commander of Hitler's S.A...
...Naturally, it it fJvSSSl the blame for splitting the labor movement...
...Nippon "Loses Face" Japs Retreat Before World Aid to China DEMOCRACIES, COMMUNISTS AND NAZIS POUR MEN AND MUNITIONS INTO CHINA IN FEVERISH SCRAMBLE FOR MARKETSCHINESE STRATEGY DEVISED BY GERMANS...
...The motion in support of collective security, although submitted by the minority, received strong support, but not enough to carry it through...
...So the Chinese tactics changed to other war methods and guerrilla war was opened in the vast spreads of the Chinese continent...
...She has forfeited, during this same time, one-third of her foreign trade...
...Both the Conservatives and Liberals lost heavily...
...The uninterrupted communication proves to a certain degree how inefficient aerial warfare ' In- the enemy's hinterland is...
...No man of political prestige can be found among the newly created "puppet" governments of Peking and Nanking...
...This is especially true for Japan—for China up to now has only been a potential power...
...That is what makes situation so difficult...
...Russia's tactics of 1812 against Napoleon are being repeated...
...Japan may exhaust her forces on the wide plains and mountains in the interior of a country which has nearly no railways, highways, or other communication lines...
...Dickman asked the national Chamber of Deputies to appoint ; ¦- a special five-man commission to investigate all "illicit activities of foreign economic political and cultural organizations...
...China is a country which cannot be conquered...
...he would throw in with Japan if it were not for China's vast raw mateiial resources...
...LIKE WATCHING A PARADE *?*HE book was written last fall—when the CIO organizing *»*" paign was at its height...
...pressions than the depth of study and analysis...
...note.] The general council is ready to take any action which will help the Mexican trade unions end the Mexican Government in their fight with the international oil corporations...
...As most of the traffic moves by night now, the whole communication line func-' tions excellently...
...These numerous Soviet aviators are now serving in the Chinese air forces, handling bombers and fighting planes, which come by way of Mongolia-Langchow-Sian...
...from there another excellent railway and highway leads up to Hankow, the present capital...
...They couldn't stand, they couldn't tit * blood dripped upon the floor of the wagon...
...Everybody hastens to raise a controversy, to put it potiteh...
...It is a great world, complex sal many-sided, not to be solved by any oversimplified formula...
...The technical superiority of the Japanese army is so obvious that every open battle proved rather hopeless...
...She tried to lift them off each other and straight*** their wounded arms and legs...
...The Communists even^tried to link Groves, and the Labor Party's activities, with Lady Astor and the pro-Nazi Cliveden set, characterizing the Laborite as an "enemy of progress and peace...
...They lay every which way, •* top of each other...
...T'HE results of the new strategy are to be seen...
...So the present experiences seem to prove that Japan's large-scale attack has been based upon grave political miscalculations...
...Literature ii becoming more reportorial, and reporting nearer to literature...
...And she can write...
...The frontal resistance, as attempted in the battle of Shanghai in the summer of 1937, was pure nonsense from a military viewpoint...
...Now Hongkong has become China's center of commercial energy, because it is English territory, without any danger of direct Japanese interference...
...It is a refreshing narrative of many dtm, and men...
...If a thousand worken §* itchy to parade, she knows about it"b^sOme eighth sense...
...Japan is risking much...
...of literature, let us say, of the avalanche of biographies, am*, biographies and travel accounts which we swallow so gladbj *]| ask for more...
...At the Hankow airfields they "meet their Russian colleagues as comrades...
...v • » * LOOK OUT FOR INDIGESTION Benito cooked Selassie's goose, and Adolf grilled the eagle, Their people's hunger they reduce, with other meals as regal...
...The An* have for many decades managed to get an excellent press: BtrtM...
...The Decoration Day Massacre before Tom Girdler1* •SJSSi...
...The campaign was run on the Tory foreign policy issue which won for the Labor Party in West Fulham and Lichfield...
...The reason for this anomalous situation is the existence of the United States Neutrality Act...
...Meanwhile the drain on Japan's economic and human forces is continuing and the political councils of Tokyo who were so quick in beginning the campaign have become uneasy...
...To make our point clearer, let us remind the reader that tha* was a time and not so long ago, as history goes, when our rtaaah novel did not exist, when the short story was in its embryo staat, and the proper thing for the ambitious young writer to write m* a solemn, heroic epic in 25 cantos along the lines of "Paratht Lost" or "The Henriade," or a tragedy in alexandrine verse...
...The "Journeys Betwaa *** Wars"(*) have been undertaken by the author at intermit a the course of the last 17-18 years...
...He lectures for the National Council of Labor...
...One has only to think of Ludendorf, Foch, Clemenceau, Umj George, Margot Asquith...
...The own seems to be overcrowded with so many Casanovas and CathertaaiH, And then everybody goes everywhere and writes a book abut ft, Russia, Spain, China, Japan, the Bali Islands, Alabama, Venae...
...Acting on the instignation of Socialist Deputy Enrique Dickman...
...Despite the vicious slander campaign of the Communists against Groves, long prominent in London trade union circles, the Labor Party won more than 3000 voters away from the Tories, in a constituency as conservative as the silkiest silk-stocking district in New York City...
...It was Chiang Kai Shek's German general staff which devised the new successful strategy now used on the Japanese invaders...
...that the British Labor Party was "cooperating with the Tories" and weakening antifascist opposition by refusing to accept the "Popular Front" propotiiln of the dying Liberals and the minute Communist Party...
...One wonders what the future historians of literature wSJ hnjt to say of our fashions in books, of our preferences for certain farm...
...China seems to have become a bottomless barrel to Japan...
...THE WORKERS ABROAD By DICK REYNARD CP...
...Naturally, the delegates were excited by the news of the break with Great Britain and were ready, to pledge immediate aid...
...By supporting the Liberal candidate, by urging labor to vote against the Laborite nominee, Reginald Groves, and by pulling every tactic oat of their patched political bag, the Communists tried to smash the Labor Party's* vote m the contested district and so "prove" to the work...
...And •they are doing efficient work, as the daily press has revealed...
...Everybody is indiscreet, inrluillaj jg posedly grave commanders-in-chief, prime ministers and that wives...
...All these points are still situated in a region which can easily be reached, being near the coast and having existing communicating lines...
...Hence, his Tom, Arabs, Persians win the reader's favor...
...It the order Is carried out, and please note that it hasn't yet been, there weald be ended seven years of German attempts to build an army for China capable of defending the far-thing nation...
...As labor history it is terra* Mary Heaton V-orse has a gift...
...It means at once less and more...
...The German officers, who are all on the reserve list of the German army, are serving in China under private contracts, but with the approval of Berlin...
...The Argentine Nazis have been active for some time, attacking synagogues, assaulting editors »f the anti-fascist Argentinische Tageblatt and sending tons of pro-Hitler propaganda through the mail...
...ffTU BACKS MEXICO AGAINST OIL COMPANIES fV3LO.—Interest in the developments in Mexico's 'oil war rivaled the question of affiliation with the Russian unions at the International Federation of Trade Union Conference last week...
...And, occasionally, when Congo, Russia, Spain are seen bjr-m> eye of an Andre Gide, Ernest Hemingway or Edmund Wilson, tkt impressions are more than worthwhile, and their very fugithmn gives them zest and significance...
...The former socalled "Communist" provinces—the name is erroneous since they are not Communist but a sort of left opposition—are now fighting at the*lside of Chiang Kai Shek, their former enemy...
...He communicated with British Labor headquarters in London immediately but didn't reveal the results of his conversations...
...The Labor Party was the only one to increase its vote...
...The followers multiply at *** come one million treading on anothers heels...
...Less because human life is very cheap in the Far East, and catastrophes are frequent...
...History all the «•§ back to the Knights of Labor is rewritten in bold stroke* **«**• it appear that the CIO savior was foretold in ancient script**** If the history is bad, there isn't much of it...
...HareeeH, Brace and Co., New York...
...Walter Citrine, who presided, pointed out that he would need more time to consult his colleagues in London before he committed British Labor...
...Business does not know such queer things as "Anti-Comintern Pacts...
...But that is all...
...Their diplomatic and press agents in South America are putting in overtime in an effort to stir up war and tension among the continent's nations...
...Marshall trief* help them...
...The Oriental thinks and feels and handles political affairs in quite a different manner...
...Much of the yearly crop of "personal aperience" and of travel accounts is the merest eye-wash, "quick, lunch" literature...
...The Japanese army needed ten months to capture the city of Suchow...
...Japanese airplanes are bombing those communication lines daliy...
...guards, was one of Hitler's victims in the famous blood purge of June 30, 1934, where he was shot with the whole Roehm clique...
...The account of Ms caravan voyage from Persia to DamatCM* excellent in its desert scenes and in his portrayal of Arab ehv' actors...
...SEEKS TO WRECK LABOR PARTY VOTE '"w"<ntBOH.—That the Communists in Great Britain are up to their old tricks was evidenced by the real story behind the defeat of the British Labor Party's candidate in the Aylesworth by-election...
...One of the most important economic consequences of the war is the "transfer" of the city of Shanghai to Hongkong...
...Some portions of hit trial diaries are excellent short stories or novelettes...
...He knows why...
...The Socialist vote jumped from 4,716 to 7,666...
...Doughty, Lawrence of Arabia, and now Dos Passos, hats em publicity work for the Arab...
...On the contrary, it has become stronger...
...A NOTHER political anomaly are the German and Russian military men fighting side by side against the Japanese, who are "allied" with the Germans in the Anti-Comintern Pact...
...It is a folk movement, a en> sade...
...The writer prefers to observe, to ponder and not to judge is haste...
...R.D...
...So it is in the interests of the m total n powers, of Russia, of England and of the United States that China get moral and material help...
...The will to resist the foreign conqueror has become much stronger...
...Nor does the United States...
...And the hushed voices of tht p»ple, even of the communists (perhaps, especially the communists) when they spoke of the G.P.U., told him a thing or two ef tralized despotism...
...The Hitlerites have some 203 German schools, which include small camps on the style which have aroused so much indignation in the United States...
...Many political acts have to be done for no other reason than for "face saving," an attitude for which there is not even a good expression in a Western language...
...Thyssen's metal cartel has already settled down on the northern mining areas in the hope of monopolizing the mineral wealth there for Germany...
...The Labor candidate is a 30-year-old newspaperman who has been an active trade unionist for years...
...For the difficulty of obtaining decent food in many plea* the filth in some would-be fancy hotels, were not lost on the aperienced traveller and novelist...
...It means human dignity, character, decency, and still something else...
...So the onkhown Chinese coolie is dying today on the Honan battlefields, unknowingly, for the cause of the great democratic power.* and Stalinist Russia...
...For the complete story of the action taken on the Soviet application for .admission see Page 1.—Ed...
...He made a gesture that he wanted to smoke...
...On the other hand, the war has entangled" both countries to such a degree that its finish must considerably affect their military and economic position in the world...
...The writer it Hb» » child watching a circus parade...
...I** pect that she carries her portable typewriter on the picket!** Perhaps she uses it as a shield when things start to pop...
...They are drawing large salaries, most of them being bound for five years...
...YOUNG RUSSIA IN Soviet Russia the author is impressed by the young peopk «f * Russia, by its many nationalities and their first awakening • awareness of the world around them—in general, by the ntft potentialities of Russia rather than by the official claims and if ures...
...The book includes his ohmmv tions of men and things in Spain (1919), the Near East, Tartar, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, Mesopotamia, Soviet Russia, and Spn again (1937...
...However, the Argentine, which is pretty thoroughly tied up by British interests, will prove a harder industrial nut to crack than did Uruguay and Brazil...
...CIO Reporting AS reporting this is first class...
...Argentina could prove extremely valuable to Nazi economic dictator Goering, and the^ German economic invasion has began...
...ALL events in the Far East, including wars and revolutions, are not to be measured by Western standards...
...The wind of vast spaces traversed by the author blowi throefi the pages of the book...
...Every reader will #*** down in hot wrath against Tom Girdler and his outlaw «•*»< And that is all to the good...
...Rati, former president ef fee Ah fens, Germany, efry council, wrote this article, Me Nexls ere at a ft I ¦ g sesse feoff* hearted conciliatory gejfvre rewords fee Japanese by ordering fee witkdrgwol ef General Alexander Von Falkenhausen, and some forty German military advisors to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai SfeeJr...
...And it is an interesting book of its kind, if ever there waf e» •JOURNEYS BETWEEN WARS, by John Dos Passos...
...It seems that the German army high command in Berlin is preventing Hitler from giving such orders...
...A national unity, formerly unthinkable and unimaginable, has been created by the clumsiness and coarseness of the Japanese aggression...
...QUICK-LUNCH LITERATURE WHATEVER the deeper meaning of all this, we are witaemi*j an important change in literary tastes, perhaps the emergma of new literary forms...
...Their daily press—the Communists were directed by Harry Pollitt—took turns in denouncing the "reactionaries at Transport House" (London headquarters of the British .Labor Party) and the "Trotskyite Labor candidate," During all this vituperation the Communist Party continued its agitation for a national "Popular Front" with the Labor Party...
...Neither Japan nor China wants its application...
...Since present hostilities began in the summer of 1937, those protests have doubled and become most urgent...
...While the final decision for committing itself has been postponed, most of the delegates to the General Council meeting told reporters that they were anxious to commit themselves to unqualified support of all that Mexico may do, a course which the Conference will probably hesitate to take officially...
...By accident or deliberate preference, the further his hosti tn removed from the influence of western civilization (so-called) S> better they come off, the more natural, more straightforward, #4 seem even if they be otherwise tough customers...
...But good cooks must some secrets keep, all weaknesses concealing, Then what if Ben and Adolf weep, the Spanish onion peeling...
...Neither of the belligerent parties found it necessary to make a formal declaration, with the result that the international law of war has not come into force...
...The American neutrality legislation seems to be as imperfect and unwise as the whple of her foreign policy...
...The best section of Chiang Kai Shek's general staff consists of about 60 to 80 German staff officers under the command of General von Falkenhausen...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 22
